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[quote=Anonymous]I can't relate to this exact situation but as a general matter I get very tired of gatherings with a lot of posed photos, especially when the person taking photos has a lot of demands and takes forever to be satisfied. I understand wanting a good photo but I think there is too much emphasis on a "perfect" one. I don't like having my photo taken very much and the longer you force me to plaster on a smile, the worse I look.

The funny thing is that I used to be a semi-pro photographer (it was how I made money on the side during grad school) and I tend to take quite a few candid photos at family events and these are the photos people are most likely to ask for copies of or frame in their homes -- the grandkids goofing off in the kitchen when they think no one is looking, my mom and her sisters laughing over cards, my brother in law resting his head on my sister's shoulder when it's late and time to go home. These are photos of actual people looking like themselves. Not a group of people staring at the camera for 10 minutes and plastering smiles on their faces.[/quote]

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